LESS TAXATION, MORE FLIRTATION
May. 23rd, 2010 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogSo I’ve been doing some catch-up on current events, as I’m a little behind, what with a recent deadline week and my trip to Hainan, where the only TV channels we could get were Chinese channels, and while they do have news shows, it’s from CCTV, which is what American TV news would be like if Ann Coulter were president, only with a different POV.
Anyway, I missed the biggest political contest of the 2010 mid-terms so far, and I have to say I thought there’d be more media hype and punditry outrage over this. I mean, forget that the Tea Party and its supporters aren’t that well known for having a sense of humor, especially when it comes to Sarah Palin, and surely this is the kind of money trail they’d be scrambling to disavow, which of course would be great television, so why the networks aren’t jumping all over this, I have ...
Hmmm, what? Rand Paul? You mean Ron Paul, right? No? Rand Paul? What’s he got to do with ...
Oh, the primaries.
Sorry. I was talking about the Sarah Palin Look-alike Contest.
Which, you’ll notice, also doubled as a Tea Party fundraiser.
Which you’d think would be newsworthy.
Granted, Tim Brown of the Admiral did suggest that they might have trouble finding someone to accept the cheque. And neither Sarah Palin nor Rod Blagojevich accepted invitations to be judges.
Still, as far as I can tell, no one in the Tea Party seems to be going out of their way to condemn it – not even Fox News. Maybe as a courtesy to the GOP?
Liberals – by which I mean Daily Kos – seem to be slightly more vocal in condemning it on traditional sexism grounds, though that’s mainly an excuse to bag on Tea Partiers for complaining about the Liberal Media being all sexist in criticizing Palin when they’re more sexist than liberals etc etc.
Is it sexist? Well, inasmuch as you can argue that no one ever reduces male politicians to campy sex objects. Except that there are also porn versions of Elliot Spitzer and – yes – Barack Obama and his stimulus package, among others, so I’m not sure that argument holds as much water as it used to. And in Palin’s case, it’s not like she was never an object of parody before Larry Flynt saw a cash-in opportunity.
Still, it’s interesting that many Americans – including fans of Palin – remain unaccustomed to the idea that a politician can be a hot MILF, and are having trouble reconciling this with their pre-conceived ideas of MILF hotness. Put country simple, yr not supposed to have sexual fantasies about politicians.
Then again, maybe that changed in 1992. I’ve lost count of how many women I know who have admitted that, had they been in Monica Lewinsky’s position, they would TOTALLY flash their thong at Bill Clinton too. And I know several more who saw that photo of Barry at the beach and thought, “Oh God yeah, I’d totally hit it.” Even Junior Bush drove women wild in his flight suit.
So in that sense, treating Palin any different would be, well, sexist.
Of course it’s all silly. But Christ, what isn’t in American politics anymore?
Which is why I don’t have anything to add about the primaries or Rand Paul. Yes, he talks crazy, but so does half the Senate these days.
Stimulation nation,
This is dF
Anyway, I missed the biggest political contest of the 2010 mid-terms so far, and I have to say I thought there’d be more media hype and punditry outrage over this. I mean, forget that the Tea Party and its supporters aren’t that well known for having a sense of humor, especially when it comes to Sarah Palin, and surely this is the kind of money trail they’d be scrambling to disavow, which of course would be great television, so why the networks aren’t jumping all over this, I have ...
Hmmm, what? Rand Paul? You mean Ron Paul, right? No? Rand Paul? What’s he got to do with ...
Oh, the primaries.
Sorry. I was talking about the Sarah Palin Look-alike Contest.
Which, you’ll notice, also doubled as a Tea Party fundraiser.
Which you’d think would be newsworthy.
Granted, Tim Brown of the Admiral did suggest that they might have trouble finding someone to accept the cheque. And neither Sarah Palin nor Rod Blagojevich accepted invitations to be judges.
Still, as far as I can tell, no one in the Tea Party seems to be going out of their way to condemn it – not even Fox News. Maybe as a courtesy to the GOP?
Liberals – by which I mean Daily Kos – seem to be slightly more vocal in condemning it on traditional sexism grounds, though that’s mainly an excuse to bag on Tea Partiers for complaining about the Liberal Media being all sexist in criticizing Palin when they’re more sexist than liberals etc etc.
Is it sexist? Well, inasmuch as you can argue that no one ever reduces male politicians to campy sex objects. Except that there are also porn versions of Elliot Spitzer and – yes – Barack Obama and his stimulus package, among others, so I’m not sure that argument holds as much water as it used to. And in Palin’s case, it’s not like she was never an object of parody before Larry Flynt saw a cash-in opportunity.
Still, it’s interesting that many Americans – including fans of Palin – remain unaccustomed to the idea that a politician can be a hot MILF, and are having trouble reconciling this with their pre-conceived ideas of MILF hotness. Put country simple, yr not supposed to have sexual fantasies about politicians.
Then again, maybe that changed in 1992. I’ve lost count of how many women I know who have admitted that, had they been in Monica Lewinsky’s position, they would TOTALLY flash their thong at Bill Clinton too. And I know several more who saw that photo of Barry at the beach and thought, “Oh God yeah, I’d totally hit it.” Even Junior Bush drove women wild in his flight suit.
So in that sense, treating Palin any different would be, well, sexist.
Of course it’s all silly. But Christ, what isn’t in American politics anymore?
Which is why I don’t have anything to add about the primaries or Rand Paul. Yes, he talks crazy, but so does half the Senate these days.
Stimulation nation,
This is dF
